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Per delict mes @eine JvoHrN 'MAT TiHE'W s, .infor yN jsf-vv] roRK. N, v.. .i

Letters .Patent-Nc. 84,836, dated Deceniber', 1868.

` iwnovnmnnrsnencnrnsmme escneres The Schnfule riez-red toin these Lettern Patent and making part ox' the new and useful 'Improvement in ottlingdilachines, of

which the following isa full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawf ing, forming peut of this. specification, and in which- Figures 1 and 2 represent sectional elevations, et

`right angles to each other, cf a machine or apparatusconstructed in accordance with :ny improvement.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspcnding parts. l'

'.lxhis, my improvement, is incre vparticularly designedto be applied to apparatus for bottling sode-Water, or other liquids under gaseous pressure,- and ci charging the bottles with sirup or other ilavoiing-mixtures Whilst.

under the lling-head of ,the machine 'and riliis, my invention, consists in a combination .of s

'sirnp-purnp, or other equivleitdevice,with.theiiill" ing-head or corking-plunger, in such manner as that the operation of said lied or plunger causes the pump to deposit within the bottle a chargeur supply oi Sirup, or its avoringsubstitutd'for adznixture with the soda Water or other liquid.A f

Also, the invenion consists in a certain arrangement, with the lling-head or cork'ing-plunger, for nutorndti operation by said'head or plunger, of'a. Sirup-pump or. charging-device, made adjustable, to regulate the quen` tity of Sirup or avci'ing-niixti1re discharged by it at each iilling-action of the machine. f Referring to the accompanying 'drawing-f" A represents the bottleteble or bed of the-machine, with a bottle, shown in red lines, es'arranged thereon.

B is the filling-heed, which may be of ordinary construction, end. is, or may be, carried by a verticallyrecip1ocating frame, formed, sity, of a cross-board, c, fitted to. slide up and down guide-rods t, and furnished with bars or rods, c, for connection of it with a treadle, or other suitable operating-connivence to effect its depression ;4 springs d, Wound around the guide-rods l, serving to raise the filling-head, which has connected with it the usual aerated-ivater 'nozzle cr branch,e,

y carrying a'stopcock or valve, f, and may further 'be provided with an ordinary surplus-escape or blow-olif branch, similarly provided.

C is the corking-plunger, for reciprocsiting action or operation, in connection' with thelliiig-fhead, in or througliwhieh it enters -or iits in the usual manner, and is, or maybe, carried by a secondary or indcpendu ent frame or bonrd, 'gg-sliding on the guide-rods l), and' provided-With bers orrods5 i, connecting itnithla needle-motion below; or said corking-plxmgcr .may be otherwise operated.v

' Connected vvith the lining-head Bis @Simp-pump,

D; vor it may be any otherv appropriatesirup-cherging "device capable of being opened and closedat `intervals by the action of the reciprocating filling-head or corki ing-plunger, .but preferably the latter, in manner such as that e proper charge or supply of sirop 1s injected into the bottle as it rests or stands in position for 'being lilled with the aerated water, and prior to -the filling up ofthe bottle-with the latter, said pump 'or sirup charging device drawing its supply,.sny, 'by hose or pipe 1c, iioin a sirnp=tank above, or otherwise.

The following description of the operation of parts,

as arranged in the drawing, will explain how this, my invention, is, or-n1ay'be, carried into practice.

The bottle benigin place, as represented and described, .the filling-head is brought down upon it,

.linked or connected with the piangere ci' the pump. This causes a charge of sirop, .previously sucked 1n or .admitted bythe puinp to its cnrrei, to be inyectedinto the bottle, such .affmissiosq-sret s). the ennesima! seisgfestetee by ensprejcnos snieisfgsicweanjustable nut, n', which gives .to 'the pump-plunger its downward' stroke. 1 The. adjustment of the nuts 'n n' on the rod cf serves to reguiate the' charge, and. time of' its inj ection'. The upward stroke ofthe corking-piunger also serves to admit ofthe insertion of the cori; in tile tiling-head, by the withdntwai ci seid plunger ont ci' the latter, at its top, sen. which theocriingpinngcr is slightly lowered, heid the cork inthe iiingmeed above the aeratedvvater vbranch e,-When the cock f is turned, and theaerated water admitted to the bottle, that, being thus illed with the water-and charge of y sirup, and cock f shut oii, is corked by bringing down the plunger C suliicientiy low to insure the proper inn sertion of the corlnend'sd plunger site rvvnrds"cemg porarily held down. while ythe'fillin=,f-he'ad is raised, to alloiv of space for-wiring orotherwise fastening the cork.,

As before observed, ee'cn ili descent ci' the corking.

plunger serves, or insyserve, to charge the pump with a fresh supply of. .sirnpi After the bcttle "hes been thus ccrked, and secured, it is removed, and a fresh bottle introduced to the machine, fora Arepetition of tno process, as described, andvrhioh dispenses with any special hand operation of tap or neck, for charging the bottle with sirnp, that is. here eiiected 'automatically by thegeneral operation of the parts connected with the illingheed or its writing-plunger.

Y An equivalent automatic action of tbc sirop-pump or charging-device, by thelcperetionof the filling-head or corkingpienger, may be obtained under a lined ar inngernentof the pump, and flexible. or other suitable connection of it, with the Siliing-heed, only varying the ump-cperatingattachmentstoconformtosuchchange.

-I do not claim broadly the combination cfs siropdispensing or'supplying device with a device for snpplying soda or minerali-water, as such a. combination is described in the pstcntto At Quanten, dated 4, 1856 5- but A 4 and the corking-plunger G r'aised till a projection, nt, '0ni it strikes an 'adjustable nut, n, on a rod, fr, winch-1s what is here claimed, and desired m be secured by ohargig-device is operated automatically by the lling-11v olf its oorkitlg-plunger,l to admit Sirup or other 'evoring-mixture to the bottle, while the alemted water,-

or otherliquid' to be sweetened or arored,is sepa.-

ratly supplied to said bottle as .it 'remiuysuuderjthe llingmead, substantially us specified.'

2.- The arralngement, essentially'as described, of the Sirup-pump or`cha'ging-devce, made adjustable, to regulate its charge, as specified, with the filling-head or milking-plunger, for Aoperation together, -substanf tially as herein set forth.;

Wituessesv: J. W. Comms,

A.- LE. OLERG.'

-JOH-lfrv MATTHEWS, JB, 

